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Banville, John
John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the Kafka Prize in 2007 and the prestigious Austrian state prize for European literature in 2014. He was elected to the British Royal Society of Literature in 2007 and the Italian Ordine della Stella d’Italia in 2017. As an author, he is regarded as an heir to Marcel Proust and Vla...
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Arto Söderstedt
Gender: Male
A Finland-Swedish top lawyer who tired of his job and moved with his family to Sweden where he trained to become a police officer. After a spell in Västerås, Arto Söderstedt was transferred to the Swedish Police Board’s special A-group unit, which Arne Dahl (pseudonym for Jan Arnald) has written about. After the group was split up, he returned in Dahl’s books about the international police force O...